When Dr. Albojay Deacon, H Sci ’11, PT ’13, first stepped on campus as a freshman, he admitted that getting acclimated and fitting in with his fellow classmates wasn’t easy.“When I attended Marquette, it wasn’t as diverse as it is now,” Deacon says. “When I walked into a classroom, I was one of two Black people or persons of color in the room. It made it tough to relate to other students.”
To work toward ensuring that other students don’t feel the same sense of exclusion, the College of Health Sciences’ Department of Physical Therapy hired Deacon to be the department’s diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator — the first faculty position of its kind at the academic department level on campus...
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